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Originally Posted by aceventura3
A drunkard trying to get from point A to point B wildly weaving left to right and right to left, at the end perhaps you can look back and say his travel was in the center of the road, but I don't see it that way. So for example, to have a guy talk about social justice but do nothing about "don't ask, don't tell", may mean to you that he is centrist, but to me it says he lack conviction and has no real core values. You either support social justice and equal rights for all or you don't. Obama is the President, he needs to act like it - he needs to be decisive not a centrist.
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I don't think you understand what "center" or "centrist" means. Let's say I'm in the middle of the political spectrum, a centrist. I still have opinions, ideas, and convictions. I believe in things. You think that a centrist sits in the middle, does nothing, believes nothing, doesn't care. Your definition of being a centrist is wrong from what it really is.
A centrist is just as valid as a conservative or liberal. Being a centrist means you agree with some liberal ideas and some conservative ideas. You can be a decisive centrist or an indecisive centrist, the same with liberals and conservatives. A centrist doesn't subscribe to one side or the other, but that doesn't mean they don't believe anything.
If you're a liberal, you agree with most liberal ideas. If you're a conservative, you agree with most conservative ideas. If you're a centrist, you cherry pick from each side (nothing wrong with that right?)